Platform Engineer

Synechron; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace arrangements

Mentoring

Learning & development

Job summary

Synechron in Melbourne is seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS environments, ensuring high availability, security, and operational efficiency.

You will lead CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform/ CloudFormation, manage ECS clusters (EC2/Fargate), monitoring, and incident response, collaborating with development teams to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including: ECS EC2 ALB/NLB CloudWatch Auto Scaling IAM VPC Networking.
• Experience managing containerized applications using Docker and ECS/Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or ELK.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available AWS-based platform infrastructure.
• Manage containerized applications running on Amazon ECS (EC2 and/or Fargate).
• Troubleshoot production incidents affecting performance, latency, availability, and infrastructure.
• Monitor and optimize ECS clusters, Auto Scaling Groups, load balancers, and cloud resources.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and releases.
• Configure observability platforms including logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Perform RCA for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve reliability, scalability, and deployment practices.
• Implement cloud security, governance, and operational best practices.
• Drive platform automation and reduce manual operational activities.

Skills

AWS

ECS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable AWS environments while ensuring high availability, security, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available AWS-based platform infrastructure.
• Manage containerized applications running on Amazon ECS (EC2 and/or Fargate).
• Troubleshoot production incidents involving application performance, latency, availability, and infrastructure failures.
• Monitor and optimize ECS clusters, Auto Scaling Groups, load balancers, and cloud resources.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and releases.
• Configure and manage observability platforms including logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and deployment practices.
• Implement cloud security, governance, and operational best practices.
• Drive platform automation and reduce manual operational activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including: ECS EC2 ALB/NLB CloudWatch Auto Scaling IAM VPC Networking Experience managing containerized applications using Docker and ECS/Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of application performance troubleshooting, memory management, and resource optimization.
• Experience investigating production incidents involving: High latency 5xx errors Application crashes Memory leaks Capacity constraints Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or ELK.

Desired Experience

• Experience with production troubleshooting of ECS workloads and container lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of OOM (Out of Memory) analysis, application tuning, and JVM/Container resource optimization.
• Experience with Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies.
• Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Experience implementing autoscaling strategies using CPU, memory, and application-level metrics.
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all.

We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company.

We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply.

We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidate Application Notice

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better.

Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions.

Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms.

Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more.

Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams.

With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,500+, and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.

For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

At Synechron, we are committed to integrating sustainability into our business strategy, ensuring responsible growth while minimizing environmental impact.

Employees play a key role in driving our sustainability initiatives, from reducing our carbon footprint to fostering ethical and sustainable business practices across global operations.

All positions are required to adhere to our Sustainability and Health Safety standards, demonstrating a commitment to environmental stewardship, workplace safety, and sustainable practices.